Have we reached a tipping point when web apps are faster than native?

.NET isn't native, doesn't it use the CLR? Even Java apps shouldn't be considered native as they use JVM.

True native is apps written in C/C++ or Rust that are compiled to run without a virtual machine. I haven't seen any webapps faster than native apps.

There are probably a few reasons it might seem like web apps are faster. A few that come to mind are perceived performance https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Performance/P... and optimization/offloading work to servers (caching, server-side rendering, APIs etc.).

It is not my impression. I write Qt apps and they are damn snappy compared to the web.

I don't think it's possible. Native cuts closer to the hardware and web browsers are built on so much stuff.

I have noticed that mobile apps are replicating things like SPA for absolutely no reason, which actually lowers responsiveness. So it might be that. Perhaps there's a shift to writing code faster over performance.

Anecdotal but I haven't noticed web apps to be faster than native apps.

However, I have noticed apps claiming to be "native" when in reality they are web browsers in disguise wrapped around some sort of web app.

How many such apps have you noticed this with? And have you done any benchmarking or collection of data? Or is this all anecdotal?